Bodyline series
1932–1933 · Event
To stop Bradman, England's captain Douglas Jardine has his fast bowlers aim at the batsman's body; Bradman's average halves and the row nearly breaks relations between the countries.
On these timelines: Australia & the Pacific, Master, England, United Kingdom (combined)
More from Australia & the Pacific
- Settlement of Australia (65000 BCE)
- First British settlement in Australia (1788)
- Captain Cook's first Pacific voyage (1768)
- Maori arrive in New Zealand (1280)
- Federation of Australia (1901)
- Gallipoli campaign (1915)
- Treaty of Waitangi signed (1840)
- New Zealand grants women the vote (1893)
Around 1932
- Presidency of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1923)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- Great Depression (1929)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- The Holocaust (1933)
- Manhattan Project (1942)
- World War II (1939)
- Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933)
- Spanish Civil War (1936)
- Winston Churchill's first premiership (1940)